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By adam

Reviews of the books on my bedside table.

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Review: The Death of Grass by John Christopher

By adam on Sun, 18 Oct 2009

The end of the world is nigh! In John Christopher’s novel first published in 1956 a virus is wiping out grass and crops across the globe and with them the survival chances of millions of people.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review Oxford Menace by Veronica Stallwood

By adam on Wed, 25 Nov 2009

A review of the latest novel from Veronica Stallwood.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review- Dead Centre

By adam on Mon, 14 Jan 2013

The ‘cosy’ British mystery novel, a literary genre, so the stereotype goes, exclusively written and read by spinster aunts, this book is unashamedly part of that tradition and displays many of its virtues.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review: Eye of the Red Tsar

By adam on Sun, 24 Jan 2010

Eye of the Red Tsar Sam Eastland Faber and Faber £12.99 335pp
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review: Gently Go Man

By adam on Thu, 12 Jan 2012

A review of a classic British crime novel of the 1960's.
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Story
Certificate U

Book Review: The Coroner by M R Hall

By adam on Sun, 06 Dec 2009

This well crafted, thoughtful and at times genuinely thrilling book is one of, if not the, best crime novels of the year.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review: The Haunted

By adam on Mon, 27 Feb 2012

A camping trip to the Scottish highlands turns nasty for an unhappily married couple.
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Story
Certificate U

Book Review: The Stonehenge Legacy

By adam on Sun, 29 Jan 2012

Creepy goings on at Stonehenge in a superior debut thriller.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review: Twisted Tracks

By adam on Mon, 04 Jan 2010

A review of the latest book from one of the best kept secrets in British crime writing
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill

By adam on Wed, 04 Nov 2009

A sniper stalks the women of a quiet cathedral town, the police are baffled and it is a deadly race against time before the killer strikes again.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Review: First Contact

By adam on Sun, 15 Nov 2009

Getting lost in the trackless jungles of Papua New Guinea turns a dream holiday into a nightmare struggle to survive for Mark and Melanie Bridges, remarkably this is only the start of their troubles.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

The original special one

By adam on Tue, 07 Aug 2012

A review of Duncan Hamilton's account of his twenty year association with the iconic football manager Brian Clough.
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Review The Shadow Collector

By adam on Tue, 28 Jan 2014

The Shadow Collector Kate Ellis (Piatkus, 2013) Lilith Bentley, rumoured to be a witch and implicated in a horrific murder returns to her...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Review The Shadow Collector

By adam on Tue, 28 Jan 2014

The Shadow Collector Kate Ellis (Piatkus, 2013) Lilith Bentley, rumoured to be a witch and implicated in a horrific murder returns to her...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review- Game Set and Murder

By adam on Mon, 10 Mar 2014

Game, Set and Murder Elizabeth Flynn (Lion, 2013) Wimbledon on the eve of the world’s most famous tennis tournament, a setting crying out to play...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book review; The Dunwich Horror

By adam on Sun, 26 Oct 2014

The Dunwich Horror H P Lovecraft (Penguin Classics, 2010) Halloween is nearly here, there are pumpkins on sale and the neighbourhood kids will soon...
Non-fiction
Certificate PG

Scarily Suburban

By adam on Sat, 06 Dec 2014

Dark Entries Robert Aickman (Faber and Faber, 2014) Robert Aickman is probably the best writer of ghost stories you’ve never heard unless you’re a...
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review The Cipher Garden

By adam on Mon, 19 Jan 2015

The Cipher Garden Martin Edwards (Allison and Busby, 2006) Five years after gardener and lothario Warren Howe was murdered by a mysterious hooded...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Painting a mean city

By adam on Mon, 09 Feb 2015

Stoke-on-Trent is a city with creativity coded deep into its DNA, something The Artist and the City, curated by Jean Milton and Anna Francis...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Things that go bump in the daylight.

By adam on Wed, 18 Feb 2015

The Soul That Screamed Dan Weatherer (Horrified Press, 2013) The debut collection from Staffordshire based horror Dan Weatherer is something of a...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review Last Rites

By adam on Wed, 18 Mar 2015

Last Rites Neil White (Avon, 2012) There is something nasty afoot in a northern mill town where the mills have long since closed down. Someone is...
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Non-fiction
Certificate PG

Book Review The Dying Place

By adam on Wed, 29 Apr 2015

The Dying Place Luca Veste (Avon, 2014) The badly beaten body of a young man is found on the steps of a church in West Derby, Liverpool. Another act...
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Non-fiction
Certificate PG

Book Review- The Orphan Choir

By adam on Fri, 22 May 2015

The Orphan Choir Sophie Hannah (Hammer, 2013) Louise has a problem with her neighbour, he keeps playing loud music in the dead of night further...
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Poem
Certificate U

Despatches from the war against being ordinary.

By adam on Tue, 23 Jun 2015

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver (Vintage, 2009) 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Why are we so sniffy about cosy crime novels?

By adam on Wed, 02 Sep 2015

When I picked up a copy of Deborah Crombie's No Mark Upon Her (Pan, 2011) my expectations weren't high. The cover showed a misty river scene complete...
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Opinion
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review- Pop Goes The Weasel

By adam on Sun, 27 Sep 2015

Pop Goes The Weasel M J Arlidge (Penguin, 2014) There's a killer stalking the back streets of Southampton, a latter day Jack the Ripper who preys on...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review Resorting to Murder

By adam on Mon, 23 Nov 2015

Resorting to Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (British Library, 2015) The oldest of the rules for reviewers is that you shouldn't judge a book by its...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review- Funny Girl

By adam on Fri, 20 May 2016

Funny Girl Nick Hornby (Penguin, 2015) In the past I have often struggled with the novels of Nick Hornby, his skill as a writer has always been...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Will Power

By adam on Wed, 25 May 2016

William Shakespeare His Life and Work Anthony Holden (Abacus, 2016) Just now William Shakespeare is everywhere, hardly surprising in the year marking...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Friends Like These

By adam on Sun, 07 Aug 2016

A Spy Among Friends Philby and the great betrayal Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury, 2014) Do we need another book about the Cambridge spies? Surely...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Friends Like These

By adam on Sun, 07 Aug 2016

A Spy Among Friends Philby and the great betrayal Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury, 2014) Do we need another book about the Cambridge spies? Surely...
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Non-fiction
Certificate U

Book Review: Beneath The Ashes

By adam on Sun, 16 Jul 2017

Beneath The Ashes Jane Isaac (LegendPress, 2016) A young woman wakes up on the kitchen floor, the house she’s in has been broken into and her...
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Other
Certificate U

Book Review: The Hunt for the 60's Ripper

By adam on Thu, 28 Dec 2017

The Hunt for the 60’s Ripper Robin Jarossi (Mirror Books, 2017) In the early sixties as London began to swing eight women were murdered, their bodies...
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Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Unleash the hounds

By adam on Wed, 28 Mar 2018

When I was a child in the late seventies the overly sentimental theme song from the cartoon version of Watership Down seemed to be on the radio...
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Non-fiction
Certificate PG
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Book Review: The Private Lives of the Tudors

By adam on Wed, 28 Nov 2018

A review of Tracy Borman's intimate history of the Tudor dynasty.
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Non-fiction
Certificate 12